The high-performance lubricant is a wind turbines to maintain the normal operation of essential materials. Recently, the German WinLub-2 Association for the Study for the development of harsh environment at sea out of the lubricating oil of high-performance environment-friendly raw material, in order to protect the offshore wind power development, its performance is superior to conventional petroleum lubricants.

Germany more than 6 percent of the electricity supply from wind power, Germany, about 22,000 wind turbines. At present, the proportion of German offshore wind is still very small, but considering the offshore wind than onshore wind power more economical land, and wind sources is also more stable and strong offshore wind power will focus on the direction of the German wind power development. By the end of 2010, Germany has approved 26 offshore wind farm construction projects, including a total of 1850 offshore wind turbines generator . By 2030, the number of German offshore wind farm will be developed to 40, will provide approximately 25,000 megawatts of electricity each year.

Demanding offshore home wind turbine lubricating oil, which is the important technical factors restricting the development of offshore wind power: on the one hand to maintain a long service life in harsh marine environments, the other is to minimize the marine ecological environment pollution. To this end, the lubricating oil companies, including Fox 8 enterprises WinLub-2 Association for the Study to proceed with the development of offshore wind turbine for high-performance biomass lubricants. The end of 2011, the Research Association in its preliminary findings to develop a new biomass oil. Compared to conventional petroleum lubricants, lubricants not only the performance of new biomass than traditional petroleum products, and non-toxic, produced from natural raw materials can be maintained to achieve biodegradation. German Federal Ministry of Agriculture (BMELV) on WinLub-2 research program provides a three-year financial support.

According to German experts of sustainable raw materials Department forecast: the environmentally-friendly biomass lubricants in Germany will have broad space for development; At present, the average annual use of biomass oil was only 3.5 million tons, accounting for 3% of the market share.

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